Chaco Series: Art, Poetry, and Texts by Judy Tuwaletstiwa

Dozens of books have been written on Chaco Canyon, a 34,000—acre National Historical Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in northwestern New Mexico. Scholars continue to debate the nature of the various Ancestral Puebloans that inhabited the area c. 850–1250 CE, what it was used for, and what caused it to be abandoned. Renowned visual artist Judy Tuwaletstiwa visited Chaco in 1984 while on a trip through the desert canyons of the Southwest. Over the next several years, she created a...